text:
I like the deal, but perhaps I just like the fact that it had to happen, and the fact that according to most, the bounty that returns was very reasonable.
Regardless, the passionless tenure of Teixeira will easily be forgotten. Sorry. I wish I was being harsh, but he was helping pilot the plane that nearly never left the airport while he was here. Not all his fault, but his legacy is nothing to tell your Grandchildren about.
As opposed to acting like I know anything about most of these kids they got back, here are some views from around the world of baseball:
Baseball America …
The Braves get a needed lefty reliever and the best player on the trade market in Teixeira, a player who can help offset the potential loss of Andruw Jones as a free agent. Teixeira returns to the scene of his college career; he was the College Player of the Year in 2000 as a sophomore at Georgia Tech. He improves the Braves' worst position as much as possible. The Mets and Phillies made moves, too, and set the stage for what should be an outstanding National League East race. Atlanta gave up its best prospects to get Teixeira, who can become a free agent after the 2008 season, and if they can make the playoffs--still a big if--they would have to be considered the favorite due to their experience, 1-2 pitching punch of John Smoltz and Tim Hudson, and imposing, American League-caliber lineup. The Rangers got a potential franchise building block in Saltalamacchia, a polished lefthander at Double-A in Harrison and lots of projection--a good haul for a player of Teixeira's stature and contract status.
ESPN Insider …
The Rangers arguably got three of Atlanta's top five prospects, with only outfielders Brandon Jones and Jordan Schafer staying in the Atlanta system. The prize is Saltalamacchia, who recovered from a lost 2006 season to re-establish himself as one of the best prospects in baseball. In a perfect world, he's an offensive catcher, a switch-hitter with power and a great batting eye. He has a similar description at the plate to Teixeira, and although Saltalamacchia doesn't have Teixeira's raw power, Saltalamacchia has a much better swing from the left side, making him a good fit for that Texas ballpark. As a catcher, he's a potential All-Star.
The main question on Saltalamacchia is his ultimate position. He's listed at 6-foot-4, which is unusually tall for a catcher; taller catchers have tended to either move off the position or to get hurt, often with knee trouble because the strain placed on a catcher's knees increases with his height. Making matters worse, he's still unpolished behind the plate, with a plus arm but sloppy actions and footwork issues. If he does stay behind the plate, Saltalamacchia now gives Texas a surfeit of catching, making Gerald Laird and possibly either Taylor Teagarden (arguably the best catching prospect in the minors right now) or Max Ramirez expendable. When you have bigger needs, like pitching, extra catching is a luxury.
Elvis Andrus is one of the youngest players in any full-season league, and he was the youngest regular in any full-season league last year. That's important when considering his track record, which isn't impressive; he's been advanced so quickly that he's never played at a level appropriate to his skill set, and has spent 2007 facing pitchers three or four years his senior. While his performance isn't impressive, his tools are. He has good bat speed, and despite a general lack of control in his swing, he squares up and the ball really flies off his bat. In the field he shows a natural flair for the shortstop spot, with soft hands, a plus arm and good range in both directions. What he lacks in instincts at the plate he makes up for with his instincts on defense. This is a great upside play for Texas, as long as the Rangers slow him down instead of promoting him without regard to his results the way that Atlanta did.
Jon Heyman …
The gambling Braves enhanced their chances to win this year and next with their trade for All-Star first baseman Mark Teixeira. But the six-player blockbuster was a coup for the Rangers, as well.
Atlanta looks much more threatening as Teixeira joins forces with Andruw Jones and Chipper Jones. The Braves, though 4 1/2 games out in the NL East and barely above .500, must be viewed as a contender now -- although they still look like they're a starting pitcher or two short.
But for Texas there's no downside to this deal. Catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia is considered a big-time hitting prospect, though the Braves' underuse of him lately is curious. Beyond having a hard-to-spell name, Saltalamacchia is a switch-hitter with power (much like Teixeira).
Rangers GM Jon Daniels was under the gun after a couple of his big trades went awry the past few years, but it says a lot about him that he didn't allow his previous failures to paralyze him. And according to GM's around the game, Daniels acquitted himself nicely with the trade of Teixeira and veteran reliever Ron Mahay for Saltalamacchia, two more premium prospects and a third unnamed prospect. Teixeira, remember, is due to become a free agent after next season and there was little chance that the Rangers could have signed him to a long-term deal.
In addition to Saltalamacchia, who was an accomplished minor-league hitter, the Rangers will also receive blue-chip shortstop prospect Elvis Andrus and reportedly top young pitching prospect Neftali Feliz as well as one more prospect, the last two being added to the deal to take the place of pitcher Matt Harrison, who had arm issues that concerned the Rangers.
While one GM offered a dissenting opinion on Saltalamacchia in this space yesterday and another questioned his defense on Monday, several executives who weighed in over the past 24 hours expressed their admiration for Salty and his skills. "We love him. A big switch hitting catcher .... What's not to love?'' one GM said.
With Salty obviously available in recent days, there were rumors of teams making a play for him to spin him off to the Rangers. But no, one GM insisted, "If we could get Salty, we'd keep him for ourselves.''
Still other GMs praised Andrus (though he's 18 and years away) and Feliz (who's 19). The GM who dissented here yesterday on Salty and said that the Rangers "aren't getting what they think they're getting'' expressed some reservations about Saltalamacchia's defense. But others love his bat enough to outweigh any defensive questions.
While Salty is generally beloved, there are still a few issues to consider, such as ...
1) It's a little disconcerting that Braves manager Bobby Cox benched Salty in favor of elderly and weak-hitting Julio Franco. It's possible that the Braves were only protecting Salty from injury so his trade value didn't decrease.
2) The Braves have a rep for never making a mistake on a young player. They aren't perfect, however, having once traded pitcher Jason Schmidt. They also have been willing to make fair deals to get the players whom they believe can put them over the top, such as when they exchanged Jason Marquis and Adam Wainwright for J.D. Drew.
3) This last consideration may not bother many, but Salty has an unusual family situation. Now 21, he married a teacher at his high school in West Palm Beach, Fla., who is now 37, according to records. His wife Ashley, who recently gave birth to their second child, insisted to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that their personal relationship didn't begin until the fall of 2004, when Salty was 18.
The Rangers apparently are aware of Salty's unusual family situation and are said to believe he's maturing. Besides, switch-hitting catchers are hard to come by.
Jamey Newberg …
I'm not here to predict that this deal will produce for Texas what Bartolo Colon and Tim Drew to Montreal for Grady Sizemore, Brandon Phillips, Cliff Lee, and Lee Stevens gave Cleveland five years ago, but this is a remarkable return, given all the factors at play.
Are the Rangers done? Chances are that Daniels has another move or two in him before this afternoon's 3:00 trade deadline. The rumored deal that would send Octavio Dotel from Kansas City to the Braves helps Texas in that teams that were in on Dotel may now be turning their attention to Gagné. The good thing as far as Gagné is concerned is we're virtually assured of getting two picks in the first two rounds if we keep him and he leaves via free agency, so that's where the trade offers begin -- prospect(s) that are worth more to us than two premium draft picks. The Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, Cubs, and Brewers are reportedly showing interest.
The Dodgers had shown interest in Joaquin Benoit as part of a Teixeira deal -- would Los Angeles part with someone like outfielder Andre Ethier or minor league closer Jonathan Meloan, two players rumored to be involved in the Teixeira talks, in a one-for-one deal for Benoit?
I'm still saying a prayer for the Mets to decide they will be marginally better off with Sammy Sosa.
If Daniels adds Ramirez, Saltalamacchia, Andrus, Feliz, Harrison, and another prospect or two for Gagné and/or Benoit this week, and if the Rangers get deals done with first-rounders Beavan and Neil Ramirez and some other relatively high unsigned picks in the next two weeks, and if the organization adds a handful of high-ceiling Latin American teenagers this summer as it has the past few years, this farm system is going to look amazingly different from the way it looked when the season started.
But so will the big league lineup, which for the next two months will feature Jarrod Saltalamacchia at-bats that once belonged to Mark Teixeira. I'm looking forward to seeing Saltalamacchia injected into the order, hopefully along with Jason Botts, but to be honest I'm not sure how it will feel not to have Teixeira there as a fixture, as the Rangers' most feared weapon.
I know this, though: a Teixeira trade had become virtually inevitable, and from that standpoint I'm excited about what Jon Daniels pulled off. I'm looking forward to checking those Elvis Andrus box scores in Bakersfield and those Neftali Feliz short-season pitching lines, and to imagining what my team's roster could look like two years from now, when Saltalamacchia could be part of the Rangers' identity, and Teixeira may very well be in pinstripes or adorned by an orange and black bird, as the Braves work to try and sign the two draft picks they received when Teixeira left for the Coast.
CJ Wilson …
good job JD- you just saved us 12 million dollars that we can spend next year on a stud pitcher, or a centerfielder. I like the move a lot.
i'm sorry to all the fans that loved mark- but he always wanted to play for atlanta anyway- he loves living there, and went to school there, and his wife's family is from there...and he's going to be too expensive for us to keep and still sign guys that we need to sign.
part of the business!
In other news, not that there is too much, David Beckham will not visit Frisco tonight ...
It was a marketing dream for FC Dallas: David Beckham, international star athlete with Hollywood appeal, scheduled to make an appearance at Pizza Hut Park.
But it has turned into a nightmare.
Beckham not only won't be playing for the Los Angeles Galaxy in tonight's SuperLiga match against FC Dallas – he won't even be in attendance. The Galaxy arrived in town Monday night without Beckham, who didn't make the trip because of an injured left ankle.
Anticipation for Beckham's appearance had spurred ticket sales for the game. Standing-room only tickets were all that remained for the match at Pizza Hut Park, which seats 20,500.
"For those fans that were coming out to see David and that was the only reason why, we're going to figure out a way to make this up to them," FC Dallas president and general manager Michael Hitchcock said.
Hitchcock said the team will soon announce a special ticket offer for the next Galaxy-FC Dallas game at Pizza Hut Park for fans who purchased tickets for tonight's game through the team or through Ticketmaster.
"I do believe there is going to be plenty of opportunities to see Beckham in the future," he said.
The club had built a campaign based on Beckham's arrival to boost interest in the match. The visit for SuperLiga, a tournament between MLS and Mexican clubs, was to be Beckham's only one to the area this season.
Some fans paid double the price of a ticket for a regular-season FC Dallas game, and others purchased tickets online for as much as $265.
"The people who are only buying tickets because of one player are getting what they deserved," said Travis Bell, president of FC Dallas' unofficial fan club, the Inferno.
FC Dallas pushed for an 11th-hour resolution that would have brought Beckham to Dallas, even if just to wave at the crowd.
But Galaxy coach Frank Yallop said it was best for his club for Beckham to stay in Los Angeles and receive treatment for his injured ankle.
Until Beckham can train with his teammates, Yallop insists on resting his star, whose ankle remained swollen Monday, keeping him off the practice field.
"We are trying our best to get him healthy. We are not going to force anybody to play when they're not right," Yallop said.
Beckham has played just 16 minutes since debuting with the Galaxy in a friendly against English club Chelsea on July 21. He has missed Los Angeles' SuperLiga matches against Mexican clubs Chivas and Pachuca.
FC Dallas manager Steve Morrow said if he were in Yallop's place, he would have allowed Beckham to travel.
"Beckham is here to sell tickets as well. They have to accept that responsibility," he said. "As a coach, I would have to recognize that everybody is expecting to see him."
Billboards with Beckham's image have been advertising his arrival. But most were removed by Monday. A ticker counting down the hours left until the match was also scratched from FC Dallas' Web site.
Team vice president for marketing Jeff Busch said he believes FC Dallas used the right approach in selling the match.
"We were promoting the fact that this world-known superstar is officially on this team and has a chance of playing here," Busch said. "It's part of the league strategy of having these designated players, the same with Chicago with [Mexican star] Cuauhemoc Blanco."
Freddy Adu goes to Portugal …
American teenage soccer star Freddy Adu has reached an agreement to play for Portuguese club Benfica, pending the results of a medical test.
"It's a done deal," a club official said Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to make an announcement.
The official said details of the agreement, including the length of the contract, would be announced at a later date but could not say when.
Adu joined the rest of the Benfica squad at a training session Tuesday, a day after arriving in the Portuguese capital to negotiate personal terms, and was undergoing medical checks, the official said. There were no immediate plans to introduce the player to the media.
Major League Soccer and Benfica agreed last week to a $2 million transfer fee for the 18-year-old attacking midfielder, who was captain of the U.S. team at this month's under-20 World Cup in Canada.
Adu has been one of the highest-profile stars of MLS since he signed with D.C. United in November 2003 at age 14, becoming the youngest player in the league's history.
Real Salt Lake acquired Adu from D.C. United last year knowing that when he turned 18 last month he would become eligible under FIFA rules to move to a foreign club.
Benfica has traditionally been one of Europe's stronger clubs, but has been unable to match the spending of teams in wealthier leagues such as England, Italy and Spain. Benfica finished third in the Portuguese league last season behind Porto and Sporting Lisbon.
Benfica will start play in the European Champions League in the third qualifying round on Aug. 14 or 15.
Bill Walsh, 75 …
Bill Walsh's legacy as a football man was always outsized, especially in these parts. He didn't make the Bay Area a football-first geographic zone, he didn't invent the 49ers as an important cog in the local culture and he didn't create the West Coast Offense out of whole cloth. We did mythologize him nearly to the point of caricature, just as we mythologized Al Davis and Buck Shaw and Pappy Waldorf and Andy Smith and all the other great football innovators in Bay Area history.
But if any of the others deserved it, so did he. He defined a three-decade era of football thought, characters and results, which renders his achievements extraordinary, and makes his passing all the more visceral.
Walsh had been in poor health for some time, fighting leukemia mostly in private. Thus, he is remembered as he was at his apex - the leonine head, the professorial voice that hid a coach's gift for ruthlessness, the pride in the ideas that bore his name, and the coaching tree that led back to Davis and Paul Brown, and forward to Brian Billick, Mike Holmgren and Tony Dungy. He was an epochal figure in the history of the game, he looked every bit the part, and he took care to leave that as the world's lasting memory.
His story has been told down to a fine gray dust - as a player who wasn't quite as good as he'd hoped he could be, as an eager coach who worked for and learned from the grandest minds of the '50s and '60s, as a middle-aged man who feared he would be stuck on an assistant's track for life, as the coach who jump-started Stanford, revivified and then immortalized the 49ers of the '80s, as the man who nurtured the
next generation of coaching talent.
He was also a complex man, well-read, solicitous, and curious about things beyond the 6,400-square-yard box in which he made his living and his reputation. Yet, at his core, he was the prototypical man of combat. He loved boxing, he was an avid reader of books about generals, and believed in the inherent truths of competition. That flew in the face of his reputation, largely unfair, that he was an effete, ethereal poser, not made of true coach's cloth.
Well, truth is he did like to cast the image of the grander thinker, the great conceptual artist, the whistled humanitarian, even the wry comedian. But he was very much a coach, with a coach's eye for skills, both ascendant and waning; for personalities, dominant and compliant; for the separate pieces and the greater whole; for strategies and tactics, for grace and brutishness - all the things that separate football from a bar fight. He built, dissembled and rebuilt with cold, remorseless precision, and his ruthlessness did not always sit well with those pointed toward the door.
It's what George Halas did, and Curly Lambeau, and Brown (his original mentor), and Vince Lombardi, and Davis, and Chuck Noll, and John Madden, and Tom Landry, and Jimmy Johnson, and Bill Parcells, and Bill Belichick. It's what they all do, and if there is another way to be successful at the football game, it hasn't been tried long enough by anyone of enduring consequence. Bill Walsh was driven to succeed, and he did it the way he'd been taught by his forbears, and passed along to his descendants.
I get asked all of the time how to listen to the Ticket on your mobile phone. First, you need a phone that can do it, but then you will need this link:
It works very well….
Here is a good baseball essay on the stat lines for each position around baseball …if you are a baseball nerd, it might be interesting to you…otherwise, keep scrolling…
Email Time:
I was in DC on business this week and decided to get into town a little early to check out the sites. Among the landmarks I viewed was that piece of crap RFK. The Nats were in town on the weekend hosting the Rockies so I took the subway which drops you right at the ballpark. Not having a ticket, a purchased a single scalped ticket four rows behind home plate for $40 (face value $120). Attached is a picture I took of Bacsik during his very impressive 6.2 IP scoreless effort.
After wriggling out of trouble in the sixth, Mike took his trademark slow saunter back to the dugout. With the place pretty much an empty cavern, my not-even-very-loud exclamation of "BaD Radio Sucks" prompted an acknowledgement in the form of a look in my general direction. Since I didn't have anyone at the game with me, and I was tired of keeping to myself, I started lying to everyone in my general vicinity, telling them that I was neighbors with his parents back in Dallas. The info I have learned about Mike from you guys pretty much gave me enough bull to keep up the façade through the entire game.
Thanks for the material,
Mike at the Mixmaster
Very Young Beckham from mid field
Failure to Communicate
Prison does Thriller


text:
Research report on subject Offshore Supply Vessel OSV Market 2019 have been released by Courant.biz. Offshore Supply Vessel OSV market is one of the most segmented and developing markets between past few years. The market is analysed in terms of market size, market share, status, trends, competitive scenario, and potential growth opportunities with forecast till 2024.
Offshore Supply Vessel OSV Market Research Report will helpful to industry supervisors, specialists, engineers, company owners to study the fact of industry. This report cover major players in the Offshore Supply Vessel OSV Industry.
Top Manufacturers Listed In Research:
- Maersk
- Siem Offshore
- Tidewater
- GulfMark Offshore
- Havila Shipping
- Vroon
- Swire Pacific Offshore Operations
- Edison Chouest Offshore
- Abdon Callais Offshore
- SEACOR Marine
These players are examined on parameters such various objectives such as profiling, the product portfolio, raw material, and the monetary wellbeing of the organisations.
Download free sample report: https://courant.biz/report/offshore-supply-vessel-osv-market/18854/
The Offshore Supply Vessel OSV market research report contains detail analysis of data with the analysis of current and future trends that may impact the growth. The report focus on the points like slow emerging forces of the market, product areas of the global market and downfall points of the market. Further, a complete summary of the financial ups & downs in terms of demand rate and fulfilment ratios is provided. Research also covers possibilities related to Offshore Supply Vessel OSV market over the upcoming years from 2019 to 2024.
Adhering to the fundaments, the market is segmented on the basis of geography. This segmentation looks at the changing nature of the economies within the regions and its impact on the worldwide Offshore Supply Vessel OSV market.
Global Market: Regional Segment Analysis
- Europe
- Japan
- China
- India
- South East Asia
Global Market: Product Segment Analysis
- Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel
- Platform Supply Vessel
- Multipurpose Support Vessel
- Standby & Rescue Vessel
- Seismic Vessel
Global Market: Application Segment Analysis
- Shallow Water
- Deepwater
Key Content of Chapters as follows (Including and can be customized):
- About the Offshore Supply Vessel OSV Industry
- World Market Competition Landscape
- World Market share
- Supply Chain Analysis
- Company Profiles
- Globalisation & Trade
- Distributors and Customers
- Import, Export, Consumption and Consumption Value by Major Countries
- World Market Forecast through 2024
- Key success factors and Market Overview
Access Report Sample: https://courant.biz/report/offshore-supply-vessel-osv-market/18854/
The Research study offers market factors like market trends, economic growth, development perspectives, product portfolio, and pricing structures. Details analysis of market situations in upcoming years (forecast till 2024) on the basis of current and previous market scenarios. The global and regional market supply chain analysis features important information about distributors, producers, and key end-users in the market. Then, product portfolio, , company overview, financial study, current highlights, strategies are covered.
We recognise your enthusiasm for the investigation. You can likewise get a personalised report chapter wise or geographical region wise.
The Objectives of Market Research Report Are As Follow:
- Robust insights of Market help you in expansion of your business.
- Effective strategies analysis to improve market performance.
- Research focuses on fact and figures which help you to create result oriented models.
- Correct directions to help you build internal capabilities to boost your business value.
- Assists you on performance enhancement and right decision-making.
Customisation of the Report:
We also offer made-to-order reports. This report can be customised as per the client's requirements. Please share the details with our sales team email@example.com.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
More on:
Over on Foreign Affairs, I have another piece on indigenous innovation and what it means for the United States. Most of the points have already been well covered on Asia Unbound (here, here, and here). I do, however, want to return to one that often gets overlooked in discussions about the 2006 "Guidelines on National Medium- and Long-Term Program for Science and Technology Development." Indigenous innovation and the state-directed, top-down policies designed to promote it get all of the attention, but in fact much of the Guidelines reads like a blueprint for building a Silicon Valley in China. Large parts of the report talk about the need to create an ecosystem that fosters technological entrepreneurship through the growth of university-industry collaboration, promotion of small start-ups, development of venture capital funds, and protection of intellectual property rights.
The question--central to my forthcoming book Advantage--is how successful China will be in developing that environment. I think it will be slow and difficult, but if it isn't it will be because of people like Kai-Fu Lee, formerly of Microsoft Research China and Google China and now the head of a venture fund called Innovation Works. Lee brings a wealth of knowledge and experience with him; he has deep ties to the technology community in China and the United States; and, in past profiles, has spoken enthusiastically about the growth of the Chinese Internet market as well as the energy and ability of Chinese students. He, and other returnees, will be critical in building networks and a culture of innovation.
So if he says that a Chinese Apple or Google is unlikely to emerge in the next 100 years, as he did two weeks ago in Tianjin, you can imagine that people are going to pay attention. Now, some of the terms Lee used in his talk confuse the matter a bit. He made a distinction between what he called micro innovation--small changes focused on the customer experience that might add up to something big--and "truly revolutionary and innovative large companies." As a number of Chinese commentators have noted, these distinctions are hard to maintain. Apple did not invent the smartphone, but instead made it better through design, marketing and customer feedback, all of which are forms of micro innovation. Moreover, it is hard enough to predict what is going to happen in the Internet market over the next three years, much less the next fifty.
Lee's real target seems to be the Chinese educational system. American entrepreneurs create revolutionary companies, according to him, because their backgrounds promote thinking without "regulation" or "restriction." Here, Lee will have lots of support, as criticism of rote memorization and deference to authority is growing within China itself. As the philosopher Martha Nussbaum notes, while the Chinese model often attracts praise in the United States, the Chinese are beginning to worry about an overemphasis on mechanical skills and the lack of individual initiative. Nussbaum's focus is elsewhere; she is interested in what impact copying this model would have on American political life since it has "energetically suppressed imagination and analysis when it comes to the future of the nation and the tough choices that lie before it." But the concerns she, and Lee, raise are worth thinking about in the Chinese context as well.
Photo courtesy of Reuters/Bobby Yip
More on:


text: Recruitment Agency Annan Welcome to Outstaff Annan CLIENTS Pool of over 50,000+ personnel; Online customer portal with time sheets; Matching staff (e.g. license, certs); Regular catch-ups and on-site visits; Out of hours service. ORDER STAFFSTAFF Over 10,000 jobs advertised online; Local presence – national reach; Equal opportunities and living wage employer; Fully loaded staff portal and mobile phone app; Rated one of the best agencies to work for. REGISTER Outstaff is the leading employment agency Annan for temporary and fixed-term staff. Whether you're looking to outsource all your staffing requirements or you need to increase staffing levels to cover blowouts or maternity leave, we can help. Order staff online now > Outstaff Reruitment Agency Annan As part of our accredited offering, we provide a range of leading services, tailored to the individual needs of our clients. These include: Building Recruitment Annan, Commercial Recruitment Annan, Recruitment Annan, Security Recruitment Annan, Commercial Cleaning Recruitment Annan, Receptionist Recruitment Annan, Office Recruitment Annan, and Drivers Recruitment Annan. Outstaff Recruitment Agency Annan We connect top performing board level and senior executives in the public and not for profit sectors with organisations in health, education, government, charities and housing. Find out more on our Outstaff Executive offering or get in touch with our team of executive search experts. Need Employment Campaigns Annan? The size of our agency and subsequent agility allows us to tailor our Annan recruitment campaigns on a modular, retained or contingent basis to meet the needs of individual businesses. By working closely with our clients in Annan, we gain a more in-depth understanding of their specific recruitment challenges and goals to deliver the best possible solution to our clients and ensure we find the most suitable candidates for their job roles, expertly matching skill-sets, experience and cultural fit. Whether you are looking to fill niche or highly specialist roles in Annan, target under-represented groups or recruit a large volume of staff, we have the solutions to help. Outstaff Outsourced Annan Outstaff's Total Recruitment offering in Annan, supported and delivered by our exclusive PORTAL, offers considerable benefits to clients, including cost savings, increased visibility and control, streamlined processes and better talent attraction. Unlike most recruitment agencies Annan, we have adapted our own processes so that we now have the flexibility to offer a managed service employment services Annan to organisations regardless of their size or recruitment volumes. Outstaff Annan is a cost-effective and completely transparent recruitment system designed to delivery large-scale campaigns with great results, using our state of the art recruitment, portal, Outstaff. Outstaff Recruitment Annan We offer a range of comprehensive online advertising options to businesses in Annan, including our own Jobs Board, sponsored job listings and advice on social media strategies, for maximum exposure for your campaign and high quality candidate attraction. Using our recruitment knowledge in Annan, we will create a package that will offer the best return on investment for your organisation. To learn more about our facilities and how we can help with your employment needs contact Outstaff Annan, now. Recruitment Agency Falmouth Recruitment Agency Crowthorne Recruitment Agency Highcliffe 2020-03-22T00:26:27+00:00Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Employment Agency Scotland, Nationwide Recruitment Agency|


text:
Multiple Listings For Sale
You are attempting to access a member page for paid clients of PLS
Oil and gas exploration, production and investment are extremely speculative. This website and content herein may also contain forward-looking statements as that term is defined in applicable securities laws. Words such as "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "expect," "estimate," "intend," "may," "plan," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "target," "goal," "objective" will typically identify such forward-looking statements. Although buyers, sellers and capital providers are making the forward-looking statements contained herein in good faith and on the basis of assumptions a Company believes are reasonable, actual results may differ materially from those predicted in such forward-looking statements. Following are a list of factors that could cause actual results to differ from those predicted: acquisition and investment risks; uncertainty of estimates of natural gas and oil reserves and production rates; inherent hazards and risks associated with the Company's assets; drilling risks; compliance with environmental and other governmental regulations; the competitive nature of the Company's industry; weather risks and other natural disasters. All users of the PLS website recognize that ALL STANDARD DISCLAIMERS APPLY and ANY AND ALL SELLER RIGHTS ARE RETAINED. As with all commercial websites, PLS is NOT responsible for any of the data found herein NOR for the business decisions of any individual using this website.


text:
June 27, 2013
Unique outdoor education facility to be operated by KDWPT
TOPEKA – The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) will operate the Southeast Kansas Nature Center (SEKNC), Cherokee County, under a lease agreement with the city of Galena. The center sits on a hilltop in picturesque Schermerhorn Park, overlooking Shoal Creek south of the city.
The lease, finalized earlier this month, allows KDWPT to lease the center and 10.1 acres of Schermerhorn Park for $1.00 annually for a term of two years, with an option to renew for two additional years. KDWPT will manage the center, care for exhibits, maintain nature trails currently on the property, and provide educational programming. The city of Galena will continue to own and manage the park (including Schermerhorn Cave and the park area along Shoal Creek), as well as maintain the center.
Several exhibits and some equipment at the SEKNC are on loan from other sources. Those items, including a working bee hive and large insect collection, are excluded from the lease agreement and will continue to remain under private ownership.
"We are excited to take over the operation of the center so we can expand our educational presence to southeast Kansas," said Ross Robins, KDWPT Education Section chief. "It is a valuable addition to our portfolio of education centers and we're looking forward to fostering our partnerships with Pittsburg State, Galena schools and local organizations."
Jennifer Rader, director of the SEKNC, states "I am thrilled to be a part of this new phase in the center's life. Schermerhorn Park has an incredible diversity of wildlife and habitat perfect for outdoor education." Rader also added that Galena residents are highly supportive of the nature center and what former director Linda Phipps has done for environmental education. "I plan to build on her legacy and provide more center-based and outreach programs for area schools, organizations and the public. We also want to explore internship and volunteer opportunities for local colleges, service projects for interested groups, and partnerships with other environmental education programs."
Schermerhorn Park is ideally situated in the 55-square mile Ozark Plateau geologic region in far southeast Kansas. The region features the oldest surface rocks in the state, and many of the hillsides are covered with hardwood forest dominated by oaks and hickories. Galena is an anchor point for the Kansas Historic Route 66 Byway, which stretches between Galena and Baxter Springs.
SEKNC is located at 3511 South Main Street (K-26), Galena. Hours of operation are Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 1 p.m. to 4 pm. For more information, call the center at (620) 783-5207.


text: Ridge pair win U-16 soccer title - Maple Ridge News November 27, 200812:00AM PST Previous Next By Robert Mangelsdorf - Maple Ridge News The Mountain Whitecaps U-16 boys soccer squad were crowned North American champions on Tuesday after beating TSF Academy of New Jersey 2-0 in the elite Super-Y League U-16 finals in Tampa Bay, Florida. The team was founded two years ago as a youth development squad for the Vancouver Whitecaps professional soccer team, and features a pair of local soccer players hailing from the Alouette Soccer Club; Paul Piche and Giordan Payne. "We knew we had a chance of success because the squad is a tight-knit group," stated coach Les Krivak on the soccer club's website. "I'm really happy for the boys, they really earned what they have achieved." The Super-Y League is the highest caliber of youth soccer on the continent, and the Mountain WFC team is one of three U-16 teams the fielded this year by the Whitecaps. The team went a perfect 5-0 at the tournament, and netted four shut-outs en route to the final. Assistant coach Rob Mazzarolo was unable to join the team in Florida due to school obligations, but said the win was historic for the fledgling club. "This is huge for us," he said. "It doesn't get any bigger." Piche overcame a nagging hamstring injury in the final to help the 'Caps to victory. After playing the first half against TSF Academy, he subbed off so the team's physiotherapist could work on his pulled leg muscle. Piche, a senior at Thomas Haney secondary, had to miss most of the B.C. high school soccer championships earlier this month to join the Whitecaps youth team in Florida. "His best weapon is his ability to deliver a cross from the wing, right to the striker's head," said Mazzarolo. "He's a quiet kid, but he always gets the job done." Piche factored in the 'Caps second goal, when he made a cross to Alex Yoon who played it off an opponent hand in the TSF Academy box, resulting in a penalty kick. Sasha Vukovic took the kick and buried it to clinch Mountain WFC the title. "This is a huge win for Canada and for the Whitecaps," said Piche. "It proves we can compete with the top teams in the U.S." Of the 16 teams competing in the U-16 boys' division, only two teams were from Canada. Payne, a senior at Westview Secondary, injured his knee in high school league play more than two weeks ago and was unable to play in the tournament, but still made the trip to Florida with his team. Mazzarolo described Payne, who is left-footed, as the team's utility player, playing every left-side position from defender to striker. "He's definitely one of the more versatile players on the team," he said. "No matter what assignment we give him, he goes out there and gets it done." Mountain WFC qualified for the tournament by finishing atop of the U-16 Pacific Northwest division with a record of 7-2-1, edging the Abbotsford Mariners by two points. The only other Whitecaps side to have ever won the Super-Y League title was the U-13 boys' squad, who were crowned North American champions in 2003. Previous Next


text:
Meeker Memorial Hospital (MMH) was smoke-free for more than 25 years. As a healthcare facility the sale of tobacco products or smoking has not been allowable in the building. As the number one cause of deaths in the United States, tobacco remains a priority health concern. As a healthcare leader, in May during National Hospital Week, May 10-16th, MMH will implement a Tobacco-Free Campus policy for all patients, visitors and staff. A Tobacco-Free Campus means that tobacco use not only is not allowed in the buildings but now will no longer be allowed on the grounds or in vehicles parked on the grounds including the use of electronic cigarettes. This step as a healthcare leader will align with the hospital Mission.
Efforts are being led by the MMH Wellness Team and Tobacco Free Campus Taskforce. In 2010, MMH was a program recipient of start up grant funding to form a Worksite Wellness Team through the Meeker, McLeod and Sibley Healthy Communities Collaborative with funding from the MN Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP). Since that time, the MMH Wellness Team has implemented many worksite initiatives serving not only staff but the community.
Now, staff can engage in fitness breaks, access a Mother's Room, to support mom's returning to work who are breastfeeding, have a hospital Garden to Table program to provide fresh vegetables to staff and visitors in the Prairie Winds Cafe' or for patient meals. There is a new Fit Choices 4 Life menu offered by A'viands nutrition services and healthy catering offered for community groups and staff. Staff are encouraged to exercise using hospital equipment and grounds. More classes and community space is dedicated for Weight Watchers, TOPS and RSVP Bone Builders or other community health programs.
A tobacco-free campus was a long term goal for the Wellness Team to implement. It affects, staff, visitors, and patients. This commitment to healthy living continues to grow inside and outside the hospital; helping MMH fulfill part of its Mission to help make the Meeker County area a healthier place to live.
Across the state of MN, hospitals are working on community health initiatives, an important part of the Strengthening Healthy Communities campaign launched by the MN Hospital Association. Efforts happening at Meeker Memorial support this broad base effort. "As an anchor in our community, it is our social responsibility to not only provide the highest quality, state-of-the-art healthcare, but to engage with our area residents in optimizing the health and wellness of our entire community," says Kyle Rasmussen, MMH's CEO. For more information, support classes and materials to assist patients and visitors regarding the MMH Tobacco Free Campus go to: meekermemorial.org


text:
Updated at 2 p.m. ET -- At a campaign-style event at the White House Friday, President Barack Obama invited congressional leaders to the White House next week for talks on how to avoid spending cuts and at least some of the tax increases scheduled to occur in January. But he insisted that tax increases on the wealthiest Americans must be part of any deal.
NBC's Brian Williams anchors President Obama's first post-election appearance, in which he calls on Congress to work with him to avoid the fiscal cliff and get the economy moving again.
In a statement at the White House, Obama indicated he will meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner next week "so we can start to build consensus around the challenges that we can only solve together."
The president was referring to $64 billion in automatic spending cuts that will take effect in January if a deal cannot be reached. Those cuts are mandated by the Budget Control Act that Obama signed into law last year.
In his first White House appearance since defeating Republican Mitt Romney in Tuesday's election, Obama said he was "open to new ideas" to avoid what is known as the "fiscal cliff." But he also dug in his heels by insisting that additional revenue be part of the solution.
"We can't just cut our way to prosperity," he said, adding that he would insist that "the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more in taxes" – a line that drew applause from the group of supporters standing behind him on stage. Obama defines "the wealthiest Americans" as single taxpayers earning more than $200,000 a year and couples with annual earnings in excess of $250,000.
And he claimed an election mandate, saying, "On Tuesday night we found out that the majority of Americans agree with my approach."
Obama also repeated many of the themes of his re-election campaign speeches in Friday's remarks – such as his view that more federal infrastructure spending is needed.
Obama did not take any questions.
Budget analysts call the combination of automatic spending cuts and tax increases set to occur at year end the fiscal cliff.
As part of an agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff, Obama and congressional leaders must also agree how much taxes ought to go up and which taxpayers will be hit by tax hikes. According to the Congressional Budget Office taxes will increase by more than $400 billion in 2013 under current law.
Adding to the pressure to design a deal that would avoid the fiscal cliff, the CBO on Thursday repeated its previous warnings that the spending cuts, combined with scheduled tax increases, would probably cause a recession next year.
Specifically the CBO said in its Thursday report that the tax increases and spending cuts would cause the unemployment rate to rise to 9.1 percent by the fourth quarter of 2013, compared to a jobless rate of 7.9 percent in October.
In a video released by the Obama campaign, a tearful president thanks his campaign workers before he sets off to tackle second-term issues including taxes, the debt and replacing as many as five high profile secretaries in his Cabinet. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
The tax increases would raise the average tax burden by almost $3,500 per taxpayer in 2013, according to According to the Tax Policy Center. This would happen because the current income tax rates and some tax breaks are scheduled to expire or shrink on Dec. 31. Among them, the popular middle-class tax break, a $1,000-per-child tax credit for each child age 17 and younger, would be cut in half.
In addition, starting on Jan. 1, the Affordable Care Act imposes a $20 billion tax increase on people with incomes above $200,000, or $250,000 for joint filers. Adding to the tax increase, a temporary reduction in the Social Security payroll tax is set to expire at year end.
The president has argued for raising taxes on Americans with incomes over $200,000 and over $250,000 for married couples who file jointly.
But the exact mix of tax increases and who must pay them will be the subject of intense negotiations between the president and congressional leaders over the next few weeks.
Before February Obama and congressional leaders must also work out a deal to raise the federal government's borrowing limit.
After re-election, House Speaker John Boehner says he believes the House GOP and President Obama will find common ground "to avoid the fiscal cliff." Boehner is also talking less harshly about the president's signature health care law.
In a press briefing Friday morning, Boehner said he is willing to work with Obama and congressional Democrats, but remains opposed to raising the tax rates for any Americans.
"The members of our majority understand how important it is to avert the fiscal cliff," he said. He sketched out his opening bargaining position: Extend current tax rates for one year, allowing Congress time to entirely redesign the tax code, eliminating some tax deductions and preferences – and pass "entitlement reform."
He made the case that "by lowering rates and cleaning up the tax code we know that we're going to get more economic growth. It'll bring jobs back to America – it'll bring more revenue."
The revenue question is crucial: Because the U.S. economy remains anemic, federal revenue has still not reached its pre-recession peak. While revenue increased for third consecutive year in fiscal 2012, it is still 5 percent below the 2007 peak.
Boehner warned about the spending pressure from growing entitlement programs: "We're spending a trillion dollars more than what we take in. You can't continue to do that. This is year two of a 25-year demographic bubble. …. Ten thousand Baby Boomers like me retiring every day."
He said "everything on the revenue side and on the spending side has to be looked at."
Obama and the Democrats go into the bargaining over fiscal policy with voters having given them a stronger bargaining position.
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
President Barack Obama addresses supporters during his election night rally in Chicago, Nov. 6, 2012.
In Tuesday's balloting, Democrats scored a net gain of at least six seats in the House, which was better than most analysts had predicted, and they exceeded expectations by gaining two seats in the Senate, dashing GOP hopes for a takeover of the upper chamber.
But Boehner said Tuesday that "The American people re-elected a Republican majority (in the House) and I'm proud of the fact that our team in a very difficult year was able to maintain our majority."
But showing that the election outcome had altered his strategy, Boehner signaled a retreat Thursday from Republican calls for total repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
"I think the election changes that," Boehner said in an interview with ABC News. "It's pretty clear that the president was re-elected, Obamacare is the law of the land."
But he added, "I think there are parts of the healthcare law that are going to be very difficult to implement. And very expensive. And as the time when we're trying to find a way to create a path toward a balanced budget everything has to be on the table." The speaker may try to make rescinding parts of the law an ingredient of any deal he tries to strike with Obama and Reid.


text: Write about a book you loved as a child. Use this as a jumping off point to say something about who you are now. account_box More About Mariah Beckman Mariah Beckman is a Seattle-based writer and editor. A transplant from the cloudless skies and arid heat of the Arizona desert, Mariah spends most of her time trying not to feel soggy. Mariah holds a bachelor's degree in English from Arizona State University and spends much of her free time with her beau, her family, and her pot-bellied pig, Bebop. When she's not pretending to know how to knit, she loves to run, hike, kayak, shop, snap photos, and explore the nooks and crannies of the Pacific Northwest.


text:
COVER- Smoldering truth: Ashley Mauter's fight and a shocking fact about smoke detectors
A year after a fatal blaze on Lewis Mountain Road killed a young man and critically injured his girlfriend, the fire's other survivor has dropped a bombshell. Contrary to news reports immediately following the blaze, the man insists that a smoke detector in his apartment was working that night and awakened him– it just didn't awaken him in time to give his sleeping friends enough time to escape. This new information contradicts the conventional wisdom that a working smoke detector could have saved everyone, and one fire official has a theory why.
Boston Deputy Fire Chief Jay Fleming is on what he calls a "one-man mission to save as many lives as possible," to teach people that having a smoke detector, while critical, is not enough. He says that having the right kind of smoke detector is what matters.
If his theory is right, thousands of Charlottesville area residents, including people with working smoke detectors, may not have time to escape a deadly fire in their own homes.
Ashley Mauter, the surviving Lewis Mountain Road victim, knows the terror and pain of a fire all too well. Looking at the blue-eyed, 25-year-old young woman, her smooth face framed by long red hair, it's almost impossible to imagine the suffering she describes– until she rolls up her left sleeve and removes her shoes.
Instead of the flawless skin she once took for granted, her left arm and both her feet– indeed, much of her left side from shoulder to toes– is a mass of scar tissue, in places more resembling melted wax than human flesh. Her right side, spared by the fire, is scarred as well, a result of surgeons harvesting her healthy skin for grafts. Thirty percent of her body was initially damaged by flames, but a full two-thirds is now marked in some way by the event that forever changed her life.
That she's alive at all is something of a miracle, according to her doctors. Her burns, though shocking, were not the most life-threatening of her injuries. Instead it was the searing smoke that damaged her lungs, the carbon monoxide poisoning that, depriving her brain of oxygen, incapacitated her and kept her from escaping on her own.
Her boyfriend, 25-year-old Brett Quarterman, suffered less severe burns than Mauter, but he– like the two victims of the 2003 Clifton Inn fire and the victim of a January fire on Woodlake Drive in Albemarle County– died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
The horrifying danger of carbon monoxide, Chief Fleming in Boston says, is the reason it's critical to install the right kind of smoke detector.
A tale of two detectors
There's no doubt that smoke detectors save lives. Since their introduction to the mass market 30 years ago, fire-related deaths have dropped by about half, according to an industry association. But while only one or two brands of smoke detectors were originally available, these days it's a different story.
Anyone taking a trip to Lowe's to pick up a smoke detector might be overwhelmed by the choices. Most of the dozens of detectors for sale are certified by global consumer testing corporations such as Underwriters Laboratories, so it might seem logical to just pick the cheapest. After all, the consumer product experts say they all work, right?
Wrong, says Fleming, who contacted the Hook after reading about the Lewis Mountain Road fire.
There are two types of smoke detectors, and they operate on different principles. The first type– ionization detectors– use a small amount of radiation. They're best at detecting the small particles typically produced by active flames, and they're significantly cheaper– several models can be purchased on Amazon.com for $5.99.
The other type, photoelectric detectors, use a beam of light like the finish line of a race course, and are activated by smoke particles intruding on the beam. Starting at $14.99 on Amazon, they're nearly triple the price of ionization detectors, but Fleming says the benefit is priceless.
Both types of detectors can eventually sense either type of fire, and he admits that ionization detectors sense open-flame fires, like those that start in kitchens, faster than photoelectric– but only by less than a minute.
Fleming says photoelectrics are far superior at detecting the larger particles typically produced by smoldering fires– fires that haven't yet erupted into full flame. He says photoelectrics can warn of a smoldering fire as much as 30 minutes before an ionization detector goes off, and those fires, he notes, are the ones that typically kill people with deadly exposure to carbon monoxide while everyone's asleep at night.
"Wouldn't you want a 30-minute head start?" he asks.
That 30-minute lead time to escape smoldering fires isn't photoelectric detectors' only advantage, Fleming says. Numerous studies confirm that ionization alarms, particularly ones placed near kitchens, are far more prone to false alarms, and these so-called "nuisance alarms" are the leading reason people disable detectors, according to the National Fire Protection Association. And a disabled detector can be a step toward tragedy.
That may have been the case in the January 26 fire on Woodlake Drive, where, according to Albemarle fire officials, the detector in the Four Seasons townhouse of 46-year-old Gregory Edward McMullen was not functioning.
As evidence of how quickly carbon monoxide can be fatal, a napping McMullen awakened to smoke and was able to call 911 from his bedroom, where he was trapped by the fire that officials believe was started downstairs by candles. That was 7:43pm. Even though firefighters arrived at 7:48pm, just five minutes later, it was too late for McMullen. He had died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
According to Albemarle fire investigator Bill Clark, the Department couldn't hear an alarm during McMullen's 911 call. Although family members allegedly told him there was a smoke detector upstairs, Clark says investigators never found it, so they couldn't determine the type or whether the battery was properly inserted. The Emergency Communications Center declined the Hook's request for a copy of the 911 tape, citing the the need to protect McMullen's family and the "personal nature" of the call.
Although the answer about McMullen's detector may never be known, Fleming suspects that it– like more than 90 percent of detectors in houses across the country– was an ionization model. He believes the tragedy might have been avoided had the apartment been equipped with a photoelectric, which could have given McMullen time to escape. Fleming says using photoelectric detectors is most critical in small apartments or mobile homes where it's impossible to install a detector far enough from the kitchen or bathroom (as ionization detectors can also be triggered by steam) to prevent frequent nuisance alarms, which lead people to disable them.
Massachusetts already mandates photoelectric detectors near kitchens and bathrooms, and a study conducted in Alaska showed that in small homes, ionization alarms were eight times more likely than photoelectric to be disabled as a result of nuisance alarms.
National Fire Protection Association spokesperson Lorraine Carli says her Quincy, Massachusetts-based organization is doing research now based on Fleming's theory and will change its recommendations if its own research supports a switch. For now, however, the Association is promoting detectors that offer combined ionization/photoelectric capability since, as she says, "You don't know what type of fire you're going to have."
What are local departments doing? Both Charlottesville and Albemarle have free smoke detector programs. Anyone can call and request devices, and the fire departments will come install them. Charlottesville, however, seems to be a step closer to Fleming's dream, offering combination detectors, the type recommended by the NFPA.
In addition, according to Charlottesville fire chief Charles Werner, his department goes beyond simply making smoke detectors available; it's systematically contacting every household in the city to ensure functioning detectors are in place. If the department can't reach a resident by phone, firefighters will visit the house to ask in person.
In Albemarle, Assistant Chief of Fire Prevention James Barber says the department is distributing ionization alarms, since they still have a supply. When those run out, he says, Albemarle FD will begin offering combination detectors.
Although proponents of combination detectors say the devices provide the best of both worlds, Fleming insists that photoelectric alone is still preferable, since the combination detectors are as prone to nuisance alarms as ionization-only models. He points to several European countries' reliance on photoelectric detectors as proof that they're enough on their own. Australian fire chiefs recently followed suit and now recommend only photoelectric detectors, and the state of Arizona also recently modified its smoke detector policies to promote photoelectric detectors.
The one concession Fleming makes toward ionization detectors: they're better than no detector at all. Anyone who doubts that can look to the fatal November 14, 2003, blaze at the Clifton Inn.
After a storm blew through Albemarle County the previous night and knocked down power lines, employees at the Inn lit candles. What many Clifton guests apparently didn't realize was that all the Inn's employees had departed for the night with no one watching over the candles or the fireplace. Sometime after midnight, something ignited furniture in a downstairs sitting room.
Upstairs in the guest rooms, unfortunately, the smoke detectors were not functioning, and some of the Inn's windows had been painted shut.
As smoke and carbon monoxide poured into rooms, several guests were able to escape, and one unconscious woman was rescued by fire-fighters from a first-floor bedroom.
But two women upstairs were not so lucky. Trish Langlade and Billie Kelly, two law school recruiters, wives, and mothers of young children, perished from carbon monoxide poisoning.
There were tragic similarities to the scene that unfolded less than four years later on Lewis Mountain Road.
Soul mates
It was at a party in July 2006 when Ashley Mauter met Brett Quarterman. He was by himself, leaning against a keg, when Mauter walked up to fill her cup. "I joked, 'a little drunk there, buddy?'" Mauter recalls. The interaction ended there that night, but the next time the two met, at a gathering the following week, they started a conversation that launched a relationship.
"We just hit it off," Mauter recalls. "We didn't talk to anybody else the whole night." Within days, Mauter says, "We knew we wanted to build a life together."
The intense connection wasn't inspired only by how much they had in common, though Mauter says they had similar quirky senses of humor and both loved animals and the outdoors. In fact, the differences between them might have even seemed stark.
Quarterman, a devout Christian, was a highly motivated 2005 Virginia Tech graduate who'd moved to Charlottesville in 2006 to take an engineering job. Mauter, who considers herself spiritual but not religious, had dropped out of community college in Northern Virginia and was working in restaurants, "a little lost," she admits, and trying to figure out what to do with her life.
Soon after their meeting, she enrolled in nursing classes at Piedmont Virginia Community College, and in the evenings, Mauter says, an encouraging Quarterman would sit with her as she studied.
Mauter didn't tell her family she'd returned to school– "I wanted it to be a surprise," she says– but her mother, Kathy Young, says that even without knowing of her daughter's enrollment, she could see Quarterman's positive influence.
"It was something special," says Young, who lives in Centreville. "All of a sudden, she was always cooking dinner instead of in bars."
The couple hiked together, painted together, and along the way, documented their relationship with photographs on almost every occasion. The shelves and walls in Mauter's two-bedroom apartment on Georgetown Road are covered with photos of the laughing couple– and with artwork they created together. Their brightly colored abstract paintings, Mauter says, are a reminder of the joy Quarterman brought, and of his artistic talent. Around her neck is a necklace he made for her with coins they'd left on tracks to be flattened by an oncoming train.
The memories are sweet. And unbearably painful.
"I saw fire everywhere"
St. Patrick's Day conjures thoughts of leprechauns, shamrocks, and celebrations in green. At 2015 Lewis Mountain Road, where Tom Stith shared a duplex apartment with another UVA graduate student, just such a party was under way on the evening of March 17, 2007.
According to Stith, it was a lively gathering of close friends who were hanging out on the porch, snapping goofy pictures, drinking beer, and enjoying appetizers. Among the 20 or so guests that night were Mauter and Quarterman.
"You never saw one without the other," says Stith, Quarterman's best friend since sixth grade.
Photos taken of Mauter and Quarterman that night show the couple in typical poses– hugging, kissing, making funny faces. "We couldn't keep our hands off each other," Mauter recalls.
By around 2am on March 18, nearly all of the guests had gone home except Mauter and Quarterman. Although they each lived nearby, they called a cab, but missed it when they lingered inside too long as Quarterman played a video game. Rather than calling a second cab or chancing a DUI, they decided to play it safe by staying at the apartment.
Stith headed to his girlfriend's apartment to spend the night, leaving his room open for his friends to crash.
That last-minute decision saved Stith's life, ended Quarterman's, and changed Mauter's forever.
In the second bedroom, the apartment's other resident, Mark Allen, awoke just before 3:30am– about 45 minutes after he'd gone to sleep following a brief, post-party clean-up. He smelled smoke and, contrary to previous news accounts that claimed the only detector was in an attic, he says he heard the smoke alarm beeping in the hallway. He didn't need to look far to find the source.
"The majority of the right-hand side of my room was on fire," Allen says. "The area beside my bed, my night stand, ottoman– it was all in flames."
Although his first fear was that he was trapped, that wasn't the case. Allen raced to Stith's bedroom down the hall, banged on the door, then pushed it open. He says he saw two people get out of bed, although he didn't initially realize they were not his roommate and his girlfriend. Having alerted them, he returned to his room hoping to extinguish the blaze, but he quickly realized his effort was futile.
"The flames had started up the headboard of my bed," he says. They then jumped to the wall and ignited posters. "I was covering my mouth with my blazer," he says. "Flames were actually traveling into the hallway at this point."
As Allen looked on in horror, the hallway ceiling– with the still-beeping smoke detector attached– collapsed. He raced outdoors to bang on the neighboring apartment's door. By the time he returned to his own apartment, the heat and smoke were so overpowering they prevented his reentry. When firefighters arrived moments later, Allen had made a terrifying discovery: Mauter and Quarterman were still inside.
Rush to rescue
The call came in to the fire station 10 on Ivy Road at just after 3:3oam. Within moments, firefighters were pulling out, racing to Lewis Mountain Road. There, they found flames shooting from two windows in the building, thick billowing smoke, and a desperate young man in the yard yelling for his friends.
Captain Mike Johnson was among the firefighters who entered the inferno. Inside, he says, the heat was intense and visibility nonexistent. After battling through the blaze in the living room, Johnson and fireman Lance Blakey reached the couple, who were unconscious in the bedroom, and passed them through a window to firefighters and EMTs outside. Mauter was breathing shallowly, but Quarterman had stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated twice before reaching the hospital.
Across the continent, Mauter's older brother, 27-year-old Ryan Mauter, was asleep in his Denver apartment when the phone rang around 2:30am Denver time. Because his sister had listed him as an emergency contact the last time she'd visited UVA hospital, his was the only number nurses had.
Ryan Mauter missed the call, but was awakened by the ringing and checked his voice mail.
"It was a message that reduced me to being a child. It was so morbid," Ryan recalls. "They said, 'We believe we have your sister here; there's been a house fire. We need family involved immediately."
He phoned his father, who also lives in Colorado, as well as his mother and stepfather in the Northern Virginia town of Centreville. Within hours, Mauter's family– Ryan and his father on a private jet provided by a friend– began arriving at UVA, terrified of what they would find.
They weren't alone in their devastation. At home in Blacksburg, Quarterman's parents had received a similar message and were quickly on their way to UVA Hospital. Members of the Charlottesville Fire Department, including Chief Werner, arrived from Lewis Mountain Road, concerned about the fate of the couple they'd rescued.
Two days later, Quarterman lost his struggle for survival, becoming the City's first fire death in a decade. It was something Werner, a 30-year veteran of the department, hoped he'd never face again.
"It was obvious how sincere and upset he was," says Young of Chief Werner. "It really tore him to the core."
Slow recovery
To allow her damaged lungs to heal, doctors induced a coma and placed Mauter on a ventilator. Her awakening, one month later, was especially difficult. Because of the pain killers– and perhaps from some remnant of carbon monoxide poisoning, her family theorizes– she was confused and even hallucinating.
"I thought I was dead, and that I was in hell," says Mauter. "I thought the people I loved were really demons pretending to be them."
Watching his sister suffer was its own kind of hell, says Ryan Mauter.
"She didn't understand what was going on; she was flailing around, her eyes were cloudy," he recalls. Even though she had awakened, her prognosis was still uncertain.
"She might not live, she might have severe brain damage, she might lose her foot," he says doctors told him. "Every time she moved, we were trying to interpret it. It was mind-numbing."
Still, in the midst of the darkness, Ryan Mauter and Kathy Young say they were touched by the care that not only Ashley received but also the care extended to them by emergency professionals. The ICU staff, they say, was "amazing."
With her horrific injuries and hallucinations, Mauter was in no state to be told of Quarterman's death.
"We struggled with how and when to tell her," her mother recalls. But eventually, Mauter– who had improved enough that she could communicate by writing in a notebook while her breathing tube was still inserted– demanded an answer about Quarterman from a visiting friend. That friend left the room to fetch Young, who, after consulting with doctors and nurses, relayed the heartbreaking facts to her daughter.
Mauter's recollections of hearing the news are foggy.
"I remember seeing Tom [Stith] the next day," she says, choking up, "holding his hand."
Mauter remained at UVA hospital until early May, undergoing agonizing wound cleanings in "the tank room," a facility equipped with steel table and hoses. Although she was given pain medication before the procedures, having nurses peel away the dead tissue to reveal raw muscle was excruciating, Mauter says. She had suffered third degree burns– wounds that penetrate all skin layers. Surgeries added to her pain, although she says she is luckier than some burn victims because her body didn't reject any of the skin grafts, a success she attributes to the skill of her plastic surgeon, Tom Gampper.
In May 2007, Mauter was well enough to leave the hospital and move to HealthSouth, where she underwent another month of inpatient therapy and began to learn to walk, talk, and live again.
Staying strong
A year after the fire, Brett Quarterman's parents sent a message that they are still too devastated to speak about the accident. Ashley Mauter's physical wounds are nearly healed, but her scars will remain with her for life.
Fire officials never pinpointed a cause for the Lewis Mountain blaze, although they believe it started in Allen's bedroom, where Allen says there were neither candles nor cigarettes. One fire investigator suggests it could have been an electrical fire. Awakening to find his room fully engulfed in flame was the most frightening experience of his life.
"Even a year later, I relive it," he says. "I can still remember the smell and the heat." Still, Allen says, his trauma pales before Mauter's.
"I'm not the one who has to live without the love of my life," he says. "I'm not the one who's been burned over a third of my body."
In the midst of the most unimaginable horror and grief, Mauter has, however, found another soul mate of sorts: her mother. Young took a leave from her job as a sixth-grade teacher in Centreville to move in with her daughter to offer her support.
"At first, I was like, 'Oh god, living with my mom again,'" says Mauter, who concedes the relationship hasn't always been smooth. "But it's been so great; now I don't want to see her go."
Mauter's primary care physician, Sean Reed, says he's impressed with her progress.
"I remember distinctly when I met her, being overwhelmed by the raw human tragedy she'd been through," he says. "I think she's working hard at rediscovering herself, redefining herself."
Taking art classes, Mauter has created a variety of new pieces– a colorful mosaic, several water colors– that join the artwork she and Quarterman created together on the walls and tables around her apartment.
Future surgeries may be scheduled to improve her flexibility. But if much remains uncertain, she's sure about one aspect of it: she'll remain an advocate for fire safety, sharing her story, showing her scars, hoping to prevent anyone else from suffering a similar ordeal.
"You see things like this in movies and you think, 'It's never going to happen to me,'" she says. "I just want to grab people and shake them. It doesn't take much to put batteries in the detector."
Boston's Fleming agrees with Mauter, but he hopes people will go a step further– putting batteries in the right kind of detector. For Fleming, that can only be one kind: photoelectric.
Correction: Ashley Mauter graduated from high school and took some community college classes in Northern Virginia.–ed
Ashley Mauter will likely undergo more surgeries in the future to help with mobility, since scar tissue can tighten over time and inhibit movement.
"Before this I was working to survive. Now I realize that I could be gone any minute, and so could any one of my loved ones," says Mauter, who is considering becoming an art therapist or a burn tech to help others deal with severe burns.
"We were soul mates," says Ashley Mauter of Brett Quarterman, seen here in a photo taken just hours before the fire.
On March 18, 2007 a fatal fire raged through this duplex on Lewis Mountain Road.
The death of Brett Quarterman two days after the fire on Lewis Mountain Road– the city's first fire-related death in a decade– was "devastating," says Charlottesville Fire Chief Charles Werner.
Jay Fleming, deputy chief of the Boston fire department, believes thousands of lives will be saved if states mandate photoelectric smoke detectors in place of ionization detectors.
12 comments
The information about the two kinds of smoke detectors is eye-opening. I own several rental houses for college students in Ohio and I will make sure we also have those kinds of detectors!I Ashley is my neice and this article is tremendously written. It truly captures all aspects of Ashley's tragic, but triumphant journey. Her story makes us all evaluate our oen circumstances and realize that we need to do a better job to appreciate each minute God has given us on this earth!
Thanks for writing this story, Courteney. I hope it brings more attention to smoldering fires.
One addition about the photodetect alarms: most Lowe's and Home Depot only stock the ionization type lately because they're $5 cheaper and people don't know to buy the combo or the photodetect type. But you can still get good quality photodetect alarms from places like Amazon.com
Mike Dayoub
I am so happy that you printed this story, I feel that we should all be aware of our fire alarms in our home, and check them often. It is such a sad story and should help everyone appreciate thier own lives and the everyday things and people we tend to take for granted. My heart, and my prayers go to Ashley and her family. God Bless
A big thank you to Courteney for pulling together so much information and writing such a tremendous article. The only other thing I think Ash would want you all to know is that she did graduate from high school but did , at one point, drop out of community college in Northern Virginia. I hope all who read this will never experience what Ashley, our family, and the Quartermans have.
Ashley's mom
Thanks Kathy, and my sincere apology to Ashley-- I misunderstood and have corrected the story online. I'll also run a correction in the paper this week.
Thank you for such an eye opening story. Ashley, you are such a beautiful girl and an inspiration. Continue your recovery. Hope to meet you one day. (A friend of Allison)
A very well written story. My best to the families.
Every [rental] house I've lived in here in Charlottesville has lacked even one smoke detector. I've done property management in my home state and I am shocked at what property managers get away with here. It was illegal in other states not to have working alarms -- you'd get shut down just for that.
Great point!!!! Charlottesville needs to change their codes especially with landlords renting property to college kids. You can't take short-cuts when it comes to safety--HEY CHARLOTTESVILLE WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE FOR YOU TO GET SERIOUS AND MAKE SOME CHANGES-- Since the landlords are making lots of money from students--you think they could bring their property up to code
Courtney,thanks for an eye-opening story and for identifying some important safety deficiencies facing our college students. Looks like you might have the opportunity for a follow-up report to raise the awareness and complacency of the folks in the city reponsible for ensuring building safety.
Your information on Ashley is a great start and hopefully will be the last article you need to print on this topic. If safety requirements are established and enforced, this type of tragedy can be prevented from happening in Charlottesville again.
ashley this is wendy from uva.............
you are awesome and I am so proud to see how far you have come. I am so glad you and your wonderful mother have a wonderful relationship now also. Keep up the good work.
Prior to publishing quotes in your article about carbon monoxide, I suggest you recheck your sources and their veracity. The quote you have attributed to me, that I disabled the CO detector is totally incorrect, and leaves you open for liable.
This story paits an amazing picture of two of the most amazing people I have ever met! Brett was a very special person to my husband and I. He and Ashley were no question made for eachother and she holds a very special place in my life. Thank you for this story and for the work that will be done by getting this story out there! Ashley, we love you and pray for your recovery daily. I hope that people can learn from this story and prevent this tragedy from happening to anyone ever again!
**Gone but NEVER forgotten!! We love you Brett!**


text:
Capacitie Home
Capacitie was the word used by Thomas Traherne to describe his essential being. Terms such as Original Nature, True Nature, First Nature, What we really are, Now, etc., are probably the more readily recognized contemporary equivalents. I chose Traherne's description because this site is the result of my interest in Traherne and what he has to say about Capacitie.
It is an attempt to combine the strands of enquiry and activity which I have found to most fruitful in revealing Capacitie. In addition to introductory information on Traherne and the Traherne Association, there are two sections based on the work of contemporary specialists in the field, Douglas Harding and John Wren-Lewis. There is a page covering the work of George Schloss which deals with the significance of Harding's work in the context of the history of thought. The Schloss essays and letters are combined in Volumes 1 and 2 of his book The Language of Silence which can be purchased as a paperback or downloaded as PDF documents. Another section is dedicated to David Bohm inspired Dialogue.
A fourth section carries The Nowletter, a monthly publication of material contributed by the readership or articles in general about the matters in which we are interested. The first edition was circulated in January'93 as an extension of the Dialogue meetings we started in Sydney following the 1991 visit to Australia of Douglas Harding and the follow-up meeting called by John Wren-Lewis to establish an ongoing community of interest in the work of Douglas and himself.
The relevance of these sections to Capacitie is explained under the various headings. The site is under continuous construction with additional articles and links inserted as they come to hand plus the inclusion of the latest Nowletter every month. The various sections and sub-sections are accessed by clicking on the menu headings in the column at the left side of the page . HTML versions of the most recent NOWletter and some Traherne related articles are filed on this website at https://www.capacitie.org/traherne/articles.htm


text:
One of the tidbits you often hear in gun control arguments is that states with concealed carry laws have lower rates of violent crime. Based on 2006 data from the Census Bureau and the FBI, here's how things broke down.
Violent Crime Total (incidence per 100,000)
Unrestricted Carry: 425
Shall Issue (state law requires issuance of permit): 476
May Issue (issuing authority allowed some discretion): 475
No Issue: 481
So, yes, states allowing concealed carry did have slightly lower violent crime rates in 2006. Violent crime here means attempted and completed assault, murder, robbery, rape, and sexual assault. Let's see how concealed carry does with completed crimes. Note that the lowest numbers here are going to fluctuate the most from year to year.
Unrestricted Carry: 8.3
Shall Issue: 1.9
May Issue: 1.3
No Issue: 4.2
Aggravated Assault
Unrestricted Carry: 310
Shall Issue: 294
May Issue: 277
No Issue: 272
Forcible Rape
Unrestricted Carry: 51
Shall Issue: 35
May Issue: 24
No Issue: 24
Unrestricted Carry: 3.7
Shall Issue: 5.8
May Issue: 5.4
No Issue: 6.1
Hmm, not looking great for concealed carry, except for unrestricted carry in the category with the lowest, most variable numbers. While it's not a violent crime, let's also look at the breakdown for suicide.
Unrestricted Carry: 18
Shall Issue: 13
May Issue: 9
No Issue: 9
Now, for caveats: This is one year of data. Rates vary from year to year. None of this is meant to suggest, on its own at least, that a strongly interpreted right to carry is bad for you or makes you less. What it is meant to do is demonstrate how small a piece of the picture the cited (slightly) lower rate of violent crime actually is. It doesn't do nearly enough to prove that guns make you safer or stop crimes from being completed.
Remember that the next time you hear it.


text:
These are GNOME personal information management programs.
Added May 7, 2003
Popularity: 27%
Plan is a desktop calendar and day planner. Appointments, notes, todo items, vacations and...
Added Oct 20, 2003
Popularity: 100%
pscal is a simple shell script that creates PostScript calendars.
Added Jun 22, 2002
Popularity: 91%
Taglog allows you to record how you spend your time, and allows you to turn those records...
Added Sep 21, 2004
Popularity: 64%
This program is designed to help you create game schedules for an unlimited number of...
Added Aug 17, 2003
Popularity: 55%
Molasses is a small and light sticky notes program for Gnome.
Added Jun 10, 1999
Popularity: 36%
A nice simple easy to use Lesstif based address book.
Added Jan 20, 1999
Popularity: 41%
A lightweight, easy to use addressbook that simulates a pile of 3x5 cards on which...
Added Feb 28, 2001
Popularity: 45%
This electronic date book includes alarms, the ability to handle cyclic dates, printing...
Added Jan 25, 2006
Popularity: 86%
worktimer is a console application which provides a way to track time worked on a...
Added Nov 9, 1998
Popularity: 32%
GCstar is a free application for managing your collections.
Popularity: 68%
This is a client/server group calendar for Linux and other UNIX systems with KDE.
Popularity: 23%
This calendar-style outline keeps track of trips, events, vacations, schedules work and...
Popularity: 95%
Zorgan is a personal information manager for Linux.
Popularity: 50%
This is a tool for people who organize sporting events.
Popularity: 18%
This is a Web-based appointment scheduler.
Popularity: 14%
This is a film collection manager. Add items to the movie collection by typing the film...
Popularity: 82%
Cryptorganizer is a simple tool to manage your information in a secure way, thus all the...
Popularity: 9%
Manage your movie collection with GCfilms. Detailed information on each movie can be...
Popularity: 73%
Wammu is a mobile phone manager that uses Gammu as its backend.
Popularity: 59%


text:
Satellite navigation could make Olympic Games safer
A future step up in security for the Olympic Games and other such events could come with help from space thanks to technologies being developed by the European Space Agency.
Ongoing trials in Athens and its surroundings of projects using the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) satellite navigation system are showing how this can be used to improve the safety of such big events.
Several simulations tested EGNOS in different environments typical of the Games currently under preparation. EGNOS is the first step for Europe in satellite navigation before Galileo. The project, called INStANT Olympic, was launched and financed by the 5th framework programme of the European Union and is technically coordinated by the Galileo Joint Undertaking.
This project, involving several Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) with Italian society Next and the Greek company Algosystems, is an infomobility service for safety critical applications based on integrated global satellite navigation terminals. The aim is to satisfy the needs of a case study like the 2004 Olympics in Greece.
The first experiment ongoing in Athens is the management of a security company. The guards on duty are equipped with a personal digital assistant (PDA) which allows them if needed, to send alarms to their headquarters. There, immediate decisions can be taken to implement the appropriate actions. Knowing the exact position of staff on duty and being able to receive real time information on the evolving situation, with images and sounds, the man in charge in the control room can adapt his response accordingly.
For example, knowing the positions of all the specially equipped patrol cars makes it possible to choose the nearest vehicle to be sent on location for support, cutting the delays in intervention.
Another application being tested in Greece is the management of a fleet of leisure boats. Sailing offshore Athens' peninsula the boats are equipped with waterproof handheld devices. These devices give accurate positioning and offer the possibility of data transfer.
If a problem occurs the occasional sailors can alert the boat owners who from headquarters can gain a clear understanding of what is going on based on pictures sent in from those on the boat. Potential damage to the boat could be shown via pictures. Furthermore, getting lost due to bad weather or instrument failure is much less of a worry; the boat owner has a map displaying the position of all boats owned.
Response to calls for assistance in many different situations can be more efficient with EGNOS. In the particular situation of the Olympic Games, EGNOS will enable new services for users and improve safety in our daily lives.


text:
Product Overview
MGP Caliper Covers Mustang & Bar and Pony Logo Matte Black Finish Silver Characters 15-17 Mustang GT
This is a full set of 4 caliper covers with engraving, made by MGP. Upgrade the appearance of your calipers, dissipate brake heat, and reduce the amount of brake dust on your wheels by using these covers. MGP makes quality, aerospace 6061-T6 aluminum covers to give you an alternative to painting your calipers. Each caliper is hydraulically formed to fit OEM brakes, and TIG welded for maximum strength. Calipers come with the logo CNC high speed, precision engraved in multiple color options with a durable powder coat. Everything is included for an easy installation, and MGP backs their products with a 3-year warranty!
MGP Caliper Covers undergo testing that includes, but is not limited to: Heat Soak Testing, Track Testing (on AND off road), Long Term Road Testing, Stress Testing, and Corrosion Testing
• Frequently tested for safety and quality
• Custom made for your vehicles OEM brakes (NOT guaranteed to fit aftermarket wheels)
• Protects wheels from brake dust
• Hydraulically formed and TIG welded from aerospace grade 6061-T6 aluminum for maximum strength
• Precision CNC engraving with a powdercoat finish for long-lasting durability in all weather types
• Patented fastening system for a secure and fast installation
• Backed by a 3 year manufacturer warranty


text:
Forum Rules
Registration to this forum is free to existing members of 2cvgb. (If you are
not already a member of 2cgb you can join by going HERE).
For security reasons you must input your Membership Number and your Postcode
Exactly as it appears on your membership card, in capitals and with any spaces.
Each time you login you will be required to input your User name, Password and
(If your membership card doesn't show a Postcode you may use your membership
number in its place)
We do insist that you abide by the rules and policies detailed below. If you agree to the terms, please check the 'I agree' checkbox and press the 'Register' button below. If you would like to cancel the registration, click here to return to the forums index.
To ensure the 2cvgb Message Board remains a fun place to be we ask you to abide
by the following guidelines:
Ä¢ This Message Board is for current members of 2cvgb to share information and
comments about anything and everything A Series, please try to keep posts within
guidelines for each forum. Off topic personal replies to posts should be sent
to the individual direct.You are welcome to engage in challenging and spirited
debate with other users, but rudeness will not be tolerated. Name-calling, disrespecting
other users or throwing personal insults against them will not be tolerated,
either from an instigator -OR- from anyone who feels like they should respond
to such instigation. Flaming another user because of their spelling or word
choice will not be tolerated, either. Personal attacks of ANY kind are not allowed
and users who violate this will have their access removed. If you have an issue
with another user, contact a moderator or administrator.
Ä¢ You will not use the Message Board to post any material which is knowingly
false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, obscene, abusive, threatening or an invasive
of a person's privacy or in violation of the law. Such posts will be removed
Ä¢ Please treat people with the same level of respect you'd like to receive yourself.
Ä¢ Please don't name and shame individuals or companies with which you've had
a bad experience. Any member persisting doing so will be reported to club committee
and immediately removed from the forum. You have been warned.
Ä¢ Messages should only be posted once. We ask that you don't post the same message
on more than one board.
Ä¢ To include a hyperlink to another website, you need to prefix your link with
http:// Just using www. won't work.
Ä¢ You can include an image with your message. Please keep your images A Series
specific. Images should ideally be no bigger than 640x480 pixels. You can upload
jpg and gifs. Inappropriate images will be removed and members doing so will
reported to the committee.
Ä¢ Please don't promote your own business.
Ä¢ Please don't POST EVERYTHING IN UPPERCASE. It's annoying to read, and there's
a caps lock key on your keyboard for a reason.
Respect For The Staff (Administrator and Moderators)
The 2cvgb website and community under the sole authority of its Administrator,
and run with the aid of additional Moderators who act on the Administrator's
authority. At all times members of this Forum will follow the instructions of
moderators and the administrator. They are acting on behalf of 2cvgb; questioning
their actions or motivations in public messages is not welcome. Instead, should
you have an issue with the way a moderator is behaving or disagree with their
judgment, you are asked to please contact the Administrator via email or private
message to express your concerns, instead of taking matters into your own hands.
This is because our staff is entirely volunteer, and deserves the freedom to
be able to do their volunteer jobs. Also, while we grant our users the utmost
discretion and freedom, there is no guaranteed right of free speech (or right
toward anything else, for that matter) in this community, and we make no guarantees
at all about its operation, its moderation or its policies; the Forum is operated
solely at the leisure of the Forum administrators, in their free time, and no
user is guaranteed the right to be here as a participant. We reserve the right
to terminate any user's forum membership for any reason at any time.
Constant and willful pushing against the limits described herein - what some
would call "almost breaking the rules" - will not be tolerated.
The owners of 2cvgb Forums reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.


text:
RCH Inks Broc Tickle
RCH Press Release
RCH Racing Announces Ricky Carmichael Joining Forces with Carey Hart; Brock Tickle Joins RCH Racing
On Saturday morning at Monster Energy Cup, RCH Racing announced the joining forces of Carey Hart's Dodge/Sycuan Casino Racing team with Ricky Carmichael and factory support from Suzuki and Yoshimura research and development, as well as the signing of Broc Tickle to ride the 2013 RM-Z450.
Team Owner, Carey Hart, knows the partnership with Ricky Carmichael and Suzuki was the next step in growing his race program that started out as an idea on a napkin in 2007. "This is a really exciting time to be teaming up with Ricky. His resume speaks volumes and his ability to work with riders and build champions is priceless. Ricky was the pivotal piece to bringing Suzuki to our team and now that we have a long term relationship with them on a factory level I feel that we have all of the pieces to go out and win a championship. I think with Ricky working close with Broc during pre-season and throughout the course of the season will help boost Broc's confidence and bring him up to the next level. Broc already has a ton of talent and he knows how to win championships. We are ready to be on the podium and winning races."
Ricky, who will be leading the team's rider development and motorcycle testing, research, and development, is looking forward to sharing lessons learned in his professional career now with RCH Racing. "I'm really excited about this partnership. Carey being successful as an athlete and as a business person has built a great foundation here in the sport and with myself being able to bring the Suzuki program over to the team really solidifies the deal and makes the team complete. We are looking forward to many good years. 2013 will be a building year and in 2014 I think we will be in contention for wins and a championship. Broc finished on the podium several times at the end of this past season and is a former Lites Champion so he knows what it takes to win races and championships. I think he is a diamond in the rough and with a little bit of guidance from myself and support from Suzuki I think we will be able to run top 5 each weekend and score some podium finishes."
For Broc Tickle, the switch to RCH Racing was a great move for him. "Having Ricky part of the program and his knowledge from being the champion he is and his history with Suzuki made making the switch an easy decision for me. The factory support from Suzuki and Ricky knowing all there is to know about the bike and working with him at the track and in training makes this a step in the right direction for me. I'm looking forward to being part of RCH Racing and helping the team grow."
"The sponsors of RCH Racing who have continued their support for the coming year and years to come are the key to continuing to help make this team grow and develop into a championship winning team. The people involved from Carey and Kenny to the mechanics and the behind the scenes crew really make this team what it is and a great team to ride for."
The support from Yoshimura and Suzuki brings RCH Racing to a new level of competition and gives them the tools they need to build a championship contending team. Don Sakakura, President of Yoshimura Racing, LLC states, "Yoshimura is very excited to be involved as a sponsor of the RCH program. The rich history of industry Icons; Ricky Carmichael and Carey Hart are legendary; Yoshimura is thrilled with this opportunity! We look forward to great success this coming racing season!"
Larry Vandiver from American' Suzuki Motor Corporation couldn't be happier on the announcement of the partnership. "We are pleased to partner our champion approved RM-Z motorcycles with RCH Racing. We look forward to a long partnership that will raise the bar on racing and bring new fans to the sport."Look for the Dodge/Sycuan Casino/Suzuki RCH Racing team to make the debut at Round 1 of Monster Energy Supercross in Anaheim, CA on January 5, 2013.


text:
Does developing website using webgl means that all code and resources like meshes and textures used in project are public?
You can use a packer for the code, this means it will be difficult to be read (but not impossible to decode). For the meshes you can also use your own binary file type (however everyone can convert it knowing how the mesh is parsed), so that will be harder to use your resources but never impossible :mrgreen:
Also if you develop using flash your code is public, there are many softs that disassembly the swf 8)
That's a rather odd question. I'm not really sure what you could possibly mean by that. So, here is the shotgun answer:
a) Using WebGL doesn't affect copyright. The content is all yours.
b) The content can be accessible for everyone or you can restrict the access. Just like you can restrict the access to any other resource you put on the web.
c) There is no way to prevent people from ripping your media on the PC platform. Cryptography doesn't help if the attacker and the legitimate receiver are one and the same person. Also, no matter how hard you try, at some point you have to send the data over to the graphics card (unencrypted) and all that data and all those instructions can be intercepted and dumped into a file.
However, this isn't a problem at all. There is so much game content available to anyone and those few people who actually bother to use it for a bit are hobby developers. And they generally only use it as a temporary placeholder.
If someone ever dares making a profit with your stuff you can sue them to hell. Really, there are laws for this stuff and they do work pretty well.


text:
YOU GUYS. Sorry for the all-caps, but the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) Conference will be in my fair city of Baltimore from November 17-20, 2011.
And dudes, CHECK OUT THIS PROGRAM (PDF). Sorry, can't stop.
First, I happen to know several of the participants:
- My Morgan State professors Siddhartha Sen (Panelist, Session 47: Planning Imperial Cities), Sidney Wong (Panelist, Session 10: The Urban Design Profession in the 1960s, and Session 29 Baltimore Highway Planning and its Effect on Planning Baltimore Roundtable), Daniel Campo (Panelist, Session 48: Industrial Redevelopment in the United States), and Joyce Pressley (Chair, Session 8: Planning for Infrastructure/Infrastructure for Planning, and Panelist, Session 55: Ecological Planning for Regions);
- My friend Alex Baca (Panelist, Session 27: Out of Place: Gentrification, Displacement and Community Resistance)
Then there's:
Of course, the conference costs money, but if you (like me) are strapped for cash, contact Eileen McGurty, Ph.D. at emcgurty at jhu dot edu; volunteer for one session and you get a free pass for an entire day of the conference!
Spread the word, and see you there!